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For what it's worth...Wed, 10 Aug 2016 13:27:15 +0000hourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=5.0.3Comment on East Side Story (1997) by MIFF 2016: The Lure (2015) | Tim's Melbourne Bloghttp://blog.timchuma.com/2013/06/east-side-story-1997/#comment-56367
Wed, 10 Aug 2016 13:27:15 +0000http://blog.timchuma.com/?p=44#comment-56367[…] movie is a musical and does have dance numbers. There used to be a whole genre of Eastern European Communist musicals back during the Cold War that are available online if you look for […]
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Fri, 19 Dec 2014 13:46:21 +0000http://blog.timchuma.com/?p=258#comment-32774Warner Archive is for titles they don’t think are worth producing bulk copies as they are only manufactured on demand so they would be perfect. I do not know why so many titles are available in France and not other places.
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Fri, 19 Dec 2014 08:37:22 +0000http://blog.timchuma.com/?p=258#comment-32746Apologies for the late reply.

Yeah, rights issues is an understatement. Warner have the rights to it (along with Sammo’s other Bojon films and a bunch of Golden Harvest affiliated films) and don’t seem too keen to license what they have. Some have popped up (only one of these Bojon films) on official DVD in France. The French releases don’t come with English subtitles though.

I’m aware of the unofficial release. I believe it’s taken from a laserdisc, but there’s more than one unofficial version out there. Unfortunately, in the States and online the bootlegs spread like wildfire. Not sure how prevalent that is here. Though the market for older HK films is not what it was (or HKL releases just didn’t sell as much as they’d hoped).

There’s some hope as Warner could easily issue these films as part of their Warner Archive series but again, I’m not sure how high the demand would be for them to undertake all the work needed to release these films especially if they think they won’t recoup the costs.

]]>Comment on MIFF 2014 – Don’t Throw Stones (2014) by Mikehttp://blog.timchuma.com/2014/08/dont-throw-stones-2014/#comment-4373
Tue, 19 Aug 2014 17:35:33 +0000http://blog.timchuma.com/?p=328#comment-4373Hey Tim, thanks for the review.
Glad you liked the film. Rebecca was classic on the night, she’s brilliant!
Still waiting on news of music rights etc, stay tuned.
And I did speak with Ed Bates but he chose not to be involved.
Had a nice long chat with him though.
Lovely fella
Best
Mike Brook
Director, Don’t Throw Stones
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Thu, 20 Mar 2014 05:44:10 +0000http://blog.timchuma.com/?p=258#comment-18This was the one movie that was personally recommended to me in the program. There is an unofficial DVD release available as rights issues are currently preventing a proper re-release. I have not seen as many Sammo Hung movies as I would like.
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Thu, 20 Mar 2014 03:54:37 +0000http://blog.timchuma.com/?p=258#comment-17I finally got a good transfer of this recently. Great to see it looking as good it was ever going to, unless it gets a legit DVD/Bluray release (ha!).
You’re right, I’m sure this never screened on SBS. It wasn’t a Golden Harvest film so I don’t know if they had much resources behind it beyond it getting VHS and laserdisc releases.

BTW if you haven’t seen them I recommend Sammo’s other Bojon films. Sometimes the films don’t have the greatest stories but his choreography was improving as always. Pedicab Driver is probably the best of the lot of them though.

]]>Comment on MIFF 2013 – Aim High in Creation (2013) by timchumahttp://blog.timchuma.com/2013/08/miff-2013-aim-high-in-creation-2013/#comment-13
Tue, 13 Aug 2013 22:50:54 +0000http://blog.timchuma.com/?p=171#comment-13I agree considering how much the director claims to dislike Mads Brugger for twisting the truth and misrepresenting what he was doing with the North Koreans in his work the Red Chapel. Thank you for your comment and it is good to hear another side of the story.
]]>Comment on MIFF 2013 – Aim High in Creation (2013) by Louise Steerhttp://blog.timchuma.com/2013/08/miff-2013-aim-high-in-creation-2013/#comment-12
Tue, 13 Aug 2013 15:45:14 +0000http://blog.timchuma.com/?p=171#comment-12I am a member of Stop CSG Sydney, which is a community organisation aiming to stop coal seam gas mining in Australia. We helped Anna Broinowski make this film by giving her access to our meetings and many hours of our time so she could get the shots she wanted. We believed what she told us – that she was making an anti coal seam gas mining documentary. At no time did she disclose to our group that she was combining it with North Korea propaganda. If she had, we would not have co-operated with her as this discredits our organisation and the wider protest movement, which has nothing at all to do with North Korea or communism. We are politically non aligned and the protesters come from all walks of life – the issue unites city and country in a way that no other cause has. Anna Broinowski is not a member of Stop CSG Sydney or any other anti CSG organisation. She did not participate in any of our protests in any way and made no contribution to the anti CSG movement. Stop CSG Sydney successfully stopped coal seam gas mining in St Peters, Sydney, through its own efforts of protest and lobbying Marrickville and City of Sydney Councils. This is a matter of public record. Our actions are not the result of some bizarre foreign ideology, but are motivated by concern for the protection of our environment and the maintenance of our food and water supplies, which are threatened by the expansion of coal seam gas mining. I find it interesting that the film maker who claimed to expose Norma Kamali in Forbidden Lies, has been less than truthful in the making of this film.
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]]>Comment on East Side Story (1997) by timchumahttp://blog.timchuma.com/2013/06/east-side-story-1997/#comment-10
Thu, 01 Aug 2013 22:36:51 +0000http://blog.timchuma.com/?p=44#comment-10Thanks for your comment, I wrote the review in 2005 but only looked for the Youtube trailers/clips and DVD buy links this year. A friend who used to work at the ACMI lending library in South Melbourne used to put the documentary on the screen in the public area every Tuesday afternoon for something fun to look at. I originally found it when searching for movies about tractors and also this.

Yes, there was a season of East German cinema at ACMI a few years back I saw Hot Summer at http://www.acmi.net.au/fo_east_german.aspx. I have the VHS of the East Side Story documentary, the DVD was listed as costing hundreds of dollars.